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=> about Heroes...

about Heroes...

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, June 15 2016, 1:38:37 (UTC)
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...a much abused word which has come to mean nothing...when everyone is a hero then no one is...the word was coined to single out uncommonly courageous behavior and no army or people is made up of all heroes.

...a hero isn't only courageous, there is a moral component to the meaning of the word.

I suppose if you are a child-murderer and the child you want to murder is surrounded by lions, in a cage...and you go in there and kill every lion and THEN kill the child, you could be called courageous and even heroic for the way you faced those lions...but are you really heroic or just that determined to get to the kid and kill it?

Our soldiers in Iraq are 100 times better armed and defended than their civilian targets...they are backed by every weapon ever invented...and yet they are fighting against civilians, people who never joined an army and never wanted to fight and didn't start a war with us....with all that can you really call an American soldier a hero because he shoots an Iraqi woman, from 500 yards away? Is this even courage?

And that woman, if indeed she had a hand grenade in her hand...in going up against the American army and trying as best she could to get them out of her country, to defeat them and kill them as they defeated and killed her family..is she not the hero in this scene? Is she not the more courageous?

Bill Maher used to think so.

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